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This CPC-CG Webinar was held on Thursday 22 June 2023 at 14:00 UK Time. Alice Goisis, Associate Professor of Demography, and the Deputy Research Director in the Centre for Longitudinal Studies in the UCL Department for Social Science, presented "Medically Assisted Reproduction and adult outcomes across the life course".

Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) is one of the most important achievements of medical science in the last generation. In advanced societies, the number of MAR treatments increases every year, and, over the last four decades, more than 10 million MAR conceived children were born, and many more families received fertility treatment. Due to concerns around the well-being of children born after MAR, a lot of attention has been given to analyse their health and development, whilst the evidence on adults' well-being and outcomes during and after the MAR process remains limited. This talk will showcase multiple studies aimed at investigating and understanding the life course consequences of MAR for adults by focusing on two broad themes: mental health and partnership stability. The results, on average, show that failure to conceive via MAR is associated with an increased risk of depression, loneliness and of partnership instability in the short and longer term. In contrast, the mental health and partnership trajectories of adults who conceive via MAR are remarkably similar to those of adults who conceive naturally. The results underscore the importance of including men in studies on reproduction and of integrating multiple perspectives and data sources.

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